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Post by golden on Sept 17, 2008 20:27:40 GMT -5
Stoney's freezin her dupa off, where has Clipper. Rick, Dave, Ralph been? This blog has been very quiet an Bobbie Z, Frank and swimmy where have you been? Kim and you?
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Post by Clipper on Sept 17, 2008 20:53:49 GMT -5
Clipper is here darlin. Just very busy with Kathy being out of commission and on the couch. I have still got some sore ribs, but keeping Kathy cared for has taken the majority of my time lately. She was back in the hospital again for a second surgery and still is not right. She has a horrible pain in her legs, and is still on Morphine, dilaudid, and Fentanyl patches for pain. She has to wait until next week to see if it improves, and next Tuesday she has an appointment to see what else can be done.
I am pretty sure Dave is out of town for a few days, and Frank and Bobbbiez will be back when summer is done, and the weather gets cold again. Bobbbiez is still on Lake Delta, but soon will be freezing HER dupa off too, haha. Stoney will be back soon. Swimmy has been busy with his job, but I hope he will post more often soon.
I was concerned myself lately with the lack of activity. I spoke with Ralph about it. He says that all forums have times when they slump a little for one reason or another.
I am hoping that it is simply a little ebb in the flow of participation. We have 100 members now, but I would be just as happy with the original 40 or 50, as long as we maintain that level of civil discussion that we always have had the majority of the time.
All I can say to the general membership is this. It is OUR forum, yours and mine. If there is something that you are dissatisfied with, send a PM to Ralph, Kim, Clipper, and we will address it. Don't simply quit posting and go away. We are a family, and we have growing pains as the forum gets bigger, but we don't want it to lose it's purpose or personality.
I have been too busy recovering from my broken ribs and caring for my better half to post a lot or to put up new topics. Frank and Swimmy have always been great contributors with new threads to discuss, I hope they will soon get back to posting regularly. Strikeslip, Gear, and Larry Tanoury Jr. have brought items of interest to the forefront to be discussed.
Thanks for your participation Golden. Hopefully it will be back to normal levels of busy participation on a daily basis soon enough. If we need to change anything to keep people interested, I hope they will come to us and tell us. We can add, delete, or change things around at any time. We are here to serve the needs of the membership, and the parameters are not cast in stone.
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Post by dan on Sept 17, 2008 21:20:22 GMT -5
I've been checking in and reading, but I'm back in school again, so by the time I get around I'm beat. Then last weekend I spent the day fighting off the hoards at TOPIX that were doing a beat-down on Sarah Palin and I got tied up there. Sorry about being AWOL, but I'll try to get back in the swing soon.
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Post by positivethinker on Sept 17, 2008 21:39:11 GMT -5
I'm busy now, too, with school and work (at a school--school and school )but I come on about once a week to see if there is anything interesting being talked about.
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Post by Swimmy on Sept 17, 2008 21:47:24 GMT -5
It's nice to be missed. Clipper's right, I have been extremely busy with my new job and moving into my apartment. When I get home from work, I'm studying all the new laws I hadn't studied before.
Tonight, I planned on going to bed 45 minutes ago to get up early. But my brain decided it had to think about one of my cases, and now I can't sleep. I don't know what to do with it and wish I could talk to my mentor about it. Though he said call anytime, I just can't call him now.
So I'm turning to you guys. Thank you for noticing my disappearance. I don't have wireless set up so I can't move my laptop to where I'm eating dinner.
By the way, anyone know of some cool people to hang with in the Binghamton area?
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Post by Clipper on Sept 17, 2008 23:34:34 GMT -5
I am comforted by the positive feedback. I have grown to love this place. It has taken on a life of it's own, and it is an important link to the old hometown and all my new friends that I have made here. I really enjoy the forum, and it is a source of great joy to me in my retirement to be able to link to the central NY area, and it's issues on a daily basis.
I get worried when it gets quiet, and now I am appeased with the response for now. haha. Have a good night folks, I have to get my beauty rest for all the good it does me, haha. Catch ya'll tomorrow. God Bless.
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Post by Ralph on Sept 18, 2008 1:03:56 GMT -5
Hehehe.......can't get rid of me that easy. We have been going through another manager transition, the one I have been working with for the past few months just couldn't handle it. Now we have another one with more experience in there, just started this past Thursday.......( sigh).......don't understand why they just don't give me the damn place?!?!?! Sometimes by the time I get on, everyone else has gone to bed. Miss ya all though!! I am sure when the weather gets a bit chillier that more will be coming inside and settling for a while to chat and catch up.
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Post by golden on Sept 18, 2008 6:37:01 GMT -5
Okay, glad to hear everyone is still here and keeping busy. I have been busier as well working 50-64 hours a week, Ralph I did drive by Dunkin last night around 5:30 and noticed your van there almost stopped but wanted to get home an do housework cause I had the night off. Have a Great Day Everyone!!
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Post by wilum47 on Sept 18, 2008 7:02:16 GMT -5
Ralph,
Just want you to know my daughter and I have been over there twice since Labor Day and it's The Zombie's "She's not there. (A little oldies thingy)
You can avoid me all you want but I'll catch you some time! ;D
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Post by kim on Sept 18, 2008 7:50:15 GMT -5
Everyone come out of hiding! :-) Ralph has Corona and donuts for all of us! :-)
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Post by Clipper on Sept 18, 2008 10:36:02 GMT -5
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Post by kim on Sept 19, 2008 7:29:46 GMT -5
Or Slim Jims, beer and chocolate cake!
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Post by dgriffin on Sept 20, 2008 12:35:00 GMT -5
I was in Maine for the week. GREAT WEATHER!! One day of rain and the rest sunny. But it's good to be back. I'll not be eating fish for a while, after stuffing myself all week.
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Post by dgriffin on Sept 20, 2008 16:00:22 GMT -5
I've been checking in and reading, but I'm back in school again, so by the time I get around I'm beat. Then last weekend I spent the day fighting off the hoards at TOPIX that were doing a beat-down on Sarah Palin and I got tied up there. Sorry about being AWOL, but I'll try to get back in the swing soon. Dan, maybe you can use this: (found on the internet:) Who Am I? I am under 45 years old, I love the outdoors, I hunt, I am a Republican reformer, I have taken on the Republican Party establishment, I have many children, I have a spot on the national ticket as vice president with less than two years in the governor's office. Did you guess? . . . . . . . . . . . . . I am Teddy Roosevelt in 1900. Hmmm so Sarah Palin is not qualified but Obama is? Change is not a destination...and hope is not a strategy.
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Post by tanouryjr on Sept 20, 2008 19:22:32 GMT -5
I'm a little confused. Let me see if I have this straight..... * If you grow up in Hawaii, raised by your grandparents, you're "exotic, different." * Grow up in Alaska eating mooseburgers, a quintessential American story.
* If your name is Barack you're a radical, unpatriotic Muslim. * Name your kids Willow , Trig and Track, you're a maverick. * Graduate from Harvard law School and you are unstable. * Attend 5 different small colleges before graduating, you're well grounded. * If you spend 3 years as a brilliant community organizer, become the first black President of the Harvard Law Review, create a voter registration drive that registers 150,000 new voters, spend 12 years as a Constitutional Law professor, spend 8 years as a State Senator representing a district with over 750,000 people, become chairman of the state Senate's Health and Human Services committee, spend 4 years in the United States Senate representing a state of 13 million people while sponsoring 131 bills and serving on the Foreign Affairs, Environment and Public Works and Veteran's Affairs committees, you don't have any real leadership experience. * If your total resume is: local weather girl, 4 years on the city council and 6 years as the mayor of a town with less than 7,000 people, 20 months as the governor of a state with only 650,000 people, then you're qualified to become the country's second highest ranking executive and next in line behind a man in his eighth decade.
* If you have been married to the same woman for 19 years while raising 2 beautiful daughters, all within Protestant churches, you're not a real Christian. * If you cheated on your first wife with a rich heiress, and then20left your disfigured wife and married the heiress the next month, you're a true Christian. * If you teach responsible, age appropriate sex education, including the proper use of birth control, you are eroding the fiber of society. * If, while governor, you staunchly advocate abstinence only, with no other option in sex education in your state's school system while your unwed teen daughter ends up pregnant, you're very responsible. * If your wife is a Harvard graduate laywer who gave up a position in a prestigious law firm to work for the betterment of the inner city community, then gave that up to raise a family, your family's values don't represent America 's. * If your husband is nicknamed "First Dude", with at least one DWI conviction and no college education, who didn't register to vote until age 25 and once was a member of a group that advocated the secession of Alaska from the USA, your family is extremely admirable. OK, much clearer now.
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